GC 17XX Tillers - what are you using?

[rossn]

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I bought my Land Pride tiller with the tractor new. I tilled over 3 acres with it last Spring, and it did fine. Getting it adjusted correctly on the 3 pnt will come with experience. IMO, tilling deep isn't good for your soil. 5" of tilling depth is plenty.

Thanks - that is useful info. And, that one seems to be a heavier duty one, as well. My thoughts on tilling deeper initially are for creating some drainage, though my tractor also came with a plow.

 

[rossn]

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I bought my Land Pride tiller with the tractor new. I tilled over 3 acres with it last Spring, and it did fine. Getting it adjusted correctly on the 3 pnt will come with experience. IMO, tilling deep isn't good for your soil. 5" of tilling depth is plenty.

By the way, what type of soil were you tilling, and had it ever been worked before?

 

[cglaser104]

My soil is red clay... I can drop the KK into it without issue. The biggest thing is that to really break it up, I have to make multiple passes on clay. Regular soil/Dirt just turns to powder in a pass

 

[Scut 4 Big Bucks]

By the way, what type of soil were you tilling, and had it ever been worked before?

One field was worked forever, the other was an 8 year old clover, alfalfa field that I killed with round up. That field was much tougher to break up, but you just have to slow way down and take your time. I have clay soils also. Moisture content will be a big factor, don't even try to till if it's too wet.

 

[porky69]

If you can pick a "like new" reverse rotation Land Pride for a grand I wouldn't hesitate to pick it up and try it. If it doesn't work you could always use it either as a trade or sell it privately.

I run a 5ft Farm King forward rotation chain drive on my GC2400 at full depth(as deep as it is willing to go, usually 2 or 3 inches above the rotor shaft) in high clay sand (with lots of fist size rocks) with little issue, you just have to go slow at times...which also helps achieve finer finish.

 

[irvingj]

I have a Woods GTC40-2. Don't use it a lot, but it works very well and at 40" is just wide enough to cover wheel tracks on my GC.

 

[rider7767]

I put together a little video of my tiller tilling in grass and a run away garden area. Massey Ferguson GC1705 tilling with a 4ft Taylor Way - YouTube

 

[Ed of all trades]

I chose a forward rotation tiller because I was told that a reverse works better the first time and the forward works better after that. I wanted to till in huge amounts of organic matter and I think a forward rotation does better for that. I have tilled in leaves that were knee deep all over my garden. took two passes to find dirt but after about 5 passes the dirt was mixed in and even my red clay garden looked nice, not like clay. My 5ft KK was to big for me to manhandle so I used an old crow bar, simular to a digging iron but does not bend as easy. I would pass on the reverse rotation, but that is me. As I said before I would go 5ft KK. Ed